Liam Hand & Paul Buckley | Team Ireland | IMMAF World Championships Countdown | Energized Show

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What is up and welcome to the Energized Show! On this episode Team Ireland's Liam Hand (HMA) & Paul Buckley (MMA Cork) join us to discuss the Countdown to the IMMAF World Championships this January (24-29). We discuss Irish MMA & More MMA craic. Like, Comment and Subscribe for…

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[Music] [Applause] okay what's going on guys and welcome to a brand new episode of energized rough introduce the guest man today we have oimath squad members for ireland we have featherweight liam hand out of hooligan martial arts and we have paul buckley a middleweight out of mma cork lads how you doing very privileged to have two team ireland members on the show today bud yeah absolutely absolutely i had to make sure we got parliament because otherwise the people from down the country would be slated or saying you only have the dorbz on so oh please yeah paul you're whatever are our talking cultures actually paul i want to start with you um obviously the imf's are over on an um abu dhabi but you spent a bit of time in dubai do you reckon that muy stanton in terms of being quicker to climb with toys to the weather over there uh 100 even for like the experience like it was seriously seriously good laughs over there like john was over there really like help me bring in and just get like top rounds really tough tough rooms that i'm going to get probably anywhere so yeah definitely and just just kind of see the place and be there and because you hear a hundred things about dubai abu dhabi and it's like this that but it's just kind of normal and haven't seen that now i think hopefully it will stand to me it would probably be a bit different now again like all your maths kind of might be a bit of pressure different pressure different kind of thing like i haven't been there before so it's different but it's definitely as they say like being there and and talking said johnner and jack who've been there and done it before so yeah hopefully i'll let me kind of send me when i actually get over and lame i was speaking to paddy yesterday and he said your your stand up which we all know is absolutely ferocious uh he said you've got some wicked meals off your back i won't i won't say exactly what they are because i i don't want anyone else watching this and then uh getting any info on you and listening yeah exactly we don't want those dagistani's coming in listen to what's going on but uh how is training going for you liam uh obviously there's uh three members from hillary martial arts on the team and obviously sean abandons won't go from there before and spirits must be high in that camp yeah trains going great i have a lot of good team members around me to try and win after just making sure i can keep me straight and keeping the fleet on the feet stopping the takedowns and keeping standing is moving out there so it's gone going getting the rest a lot of grappling in at the minute so see a different different for you next time do you ever wear them you ever wear the single like jockster no it's really not just actually whatever you've obviously represented around before at the imax like for the people listening there what's it like to actually go over and represent your country abroad yeah it's very it's a proud momently goes over in prague in september too it's great feeling to be able to represent the country only four featherweights gone over so it's great to be picked hopefully take it all back back to work absolutely absolutely and paul you're you're the biggest dog going over there middleweight is the highest weight class that we have and so so your security over there uh any medicine on that send you out on them but um tell us this obviously there's less higher weight class people in ireland if you ever struggle for training partners that are similar weight yourself no like luckily enough uh in my court there's loads lot like you've probably seen a few lads coming up like brian manning uh carl falvey even like lee mcgill like there's a lot of like big lads there like that are same waiting very very good like they've been coming on the scene they're seeing zelda in their class like so uh it hasn't been tough for me i probably got lucky that way that they just happened to be last month so he's that trained all-time monster and all the time like so it's grand for me and even for like i've trained with other lads like mag and stuff i know he's lighter but like he's big like he's definitely you know like your big like welterweight same day he's big for that he could definitely do midway because i'm not like a huge middleweight so um for training partners has been okay i think are you the only person from cork going are you no i think on the way louise is going to louise brady who's also gonna make foxconn yeah but she's alright team cadets i think i'll take a grand that's that you won't be the only one sure might include you in dubs limo [Laughter] you're from around the d12 area and then like obviously conor is not notorious from being around there like what's it like now stepping in representing around now this year and like knowing that like conor mcgregor who's been from around the same areas yourself has gone the whole way became championship what's that like they actually came from where state in all county glenn and we saw him my house he has a big sports center for a lot of celtic titanium so i have to say it right beside our front door like that that's what can happen like if you follow true which i dream that's me my plan is to be vaguely going to sport as well to win ufc toils it's doable yeah russell it's not actually unreal like just literally like the same mistake i didn't know it was that close now i thought it was gonna be the same sort of well i think it basically comes down to one of those things where you know people can't don't believe you can do something until you've done it you know i mean people you say you couldn't run a model under four minutes and then someone ran a mile in under four minutes you know i mean you know people probably said someone from ireland can't be ufc champion until conor mcgregor went and did you know liam's from the same area so you can't draw much better uh inspiration that and also uh they're both very dangerous and uh for some tasty shots on the feet amen yeah people listening right now say i just want to make sure to watch the labs compete at the imf world championships it's on this january 24th and 29th you can make sure to go on to liam's instagram at liam hand he'll put all the directions towards what time he's fighting etc and from mma corks paul buckley you can go into his instagram at paul buckley uh sorry at paul underscore buckley 98 and he'll let you know exactly what days and times he's fighting as well so make sure to support our original mma and team around check out bow lads pages we'll be promoting them all over our stuff as well and let's go team around russ for headwood yeah liam i think you're about to just touch it there do you actually get any rounds in criminal boxing club as well no we started went there when i was younger i think it was about 10 minutes starting off showing what i threw kickboxing unboxing oh yeah i went there to throw it out and they have some serious voices in there and they do i went with the k i went up to the kickboxing the next week don't just kept on with that oh look it takes paranoid and liam how long are you doing mixed martial arts as a whole because i know you're doing kickboxing for but yeah only two years i think yeah so you must be obviously very naturally good if you've already made the owyers team after two years yeah you know it was good it was a great experiment to make that especially with like getting the junior two and all of during the lockdown i started nearly so i couldn't try and properly but putting the work at home with filming teammates up there and we all know like private sessions with each other in the park and also we've done what we could to keep improving that's what it's about it is about doing what you can these times that obviously you have some great bodies up there like adam mcenroe jockster monkey byrne and you know sean and sarah as well you mean like there's some tough ones coming out of that gym so you have to make sure you get that that work in uh paul um obviously we touched on it earlier you went over to your boy you went and uh yeah spent a bit time john mitchell over there how much did you spend time and training with john mitchell he was an undefeated professional and how much did that actually help you and like did it change in your habits shadow john yeah loads like even for um like even besides the training because obviously like training's just training it's the same everywhere almost in terms of like you you're going to keep boxing just to wrestle and whatever but like i think like his mentality attitude towards everything like just commitment discipline in general like he's like one of the most committed discipline people i've ever come across i'd say like he's um he's like no stone on turn with him like you know he's kind of gets everything right like so it's kind of i'm trying to do the same as him there you know like yeah fitness best i can nutrition best i can like sleep like he doesn't leave everything so because it takes pressure off the fight then like if you do everything you can like when you're going to fight it's just like if i lose like no regrets because i've done everything i could have done so i just was like whole attitude mentality and like yeah even experience so he's done everything i'm doing now before so it's kind of you know he's any questions anything i need to know like he's straight there text him and he'll like he's good really good to help out like you really kind of reach out and help any questions anything i need help with and he's he's there like you need to give his time so it's helped me like a lot a lot and aaron and jack to like they've all kind of done this kind of past already like so all three of them are just like really amazing paul can you tell us about what what like what the last five years of mixed martial arts has been like in cork and what you sort of expected to be like in the next two um i think it's just like last two was kind of been weird because corbin's off jim's clothes and things but it's definitely getting bigger even like just from memory cork alone like there's way more numbers those people coming in all the time new members coming up especially probably now with january and i think that like the better fighters in cork do like um the more attention is going to get more people coming up so like it's growing a lot because i think like everyone in like in ireland like like you said like you know mcgregor's done it so everyone kind of wants to do it like and it's the head is past coming up to the gym the first day and when people do that like elastic around so it's definitely getting bigger and it's it's growing and then frost alone like there's a lot of amateurs going a lot of amateurs come up and going like yeah yeah yeah brian manning lords vadilla oshie maloney um quite fast i'm forgetting loaves now but there's a lot there's a lot of them and that's just also like for spg and samson there's probably more again that's exciting now definitely is um and obviously lame i just want to talk to yourself obviously you have one of the biggest legends in irish mixed martial arts uh paddy hill and going in your career what sort of advice does paddy give to you on the daily and how is he helping your transition over from kickboxing two mixed martial arts yeah paddy's been great since the start when i told him i wanted to play johnny ever made was fully fully vacuumed trains me every day nearly three times three times every week we get into sessions so it's great to be trying to get in there too there's a lot of uh just different stuff in different scenarios like of every little detail that adds up he gives you don't look so it's great to have have that more corner if you were to describe your fight and saw like another mixed martial artist who do you say your fighting style is like um you know run on deckers yeah he's he's not known forever so [Music] and then paul what who would you describe your phone saw like don't say john mitchell yeah no i was just trying to think when you said it i knew it was coming that question so i i actually don't know to be honest i was trying to look at other fighters and like maybe tape it's what they do like i like looking at lads now like um gary tony like is he's like he's different he's got like you know one championship he's class other lads like that but i actually don't know i don't know one person to kind of directly compare to but um yeah i have nothing for that one we'll find out we'll find out on the 24th of january definitely yeah it's not exactly so that's also like liam like we just have to go into the new year like what are you what should people expect from yourself now in 2022 2022 uh different are there any goals you want to achieve yeah i want to get much i want to give you blue about this year and just get a much better level of grappling because once if i get taken down then i know i'm already feeling where is my mindset now it's like i don't want to get taken down or when i get to a place where i'm like i'll get taken down at that moment because i know i can just hop out straight away but obviously they're gonna be staying with people having my goal to not worry about getting taken down being dangerous everywhere love the honesty paul what about yourself what you want to achieve in 2022 just fight really as much as i can for as much possible so i get them like every month or two if i'm you know not injured and fifth and sam's liam just get keep getting better i suppose keep getting better and better and um keep getting more experience so like you know when eventually do go pro kind of in the best place possible like skill boys and experience experience was to kind of really go for it russ like obviously this is going to be a big huge event for rsma and it is self-funded what should people expect from team ireland going over to the imf world championships this january the 24th to the 29th we look we're always competitive we always have been i think at the end of the day we produce fantastic mixed martial arts we always have uh sure you know the most notorious and well-known martial arts in the world it's from maryland so uh people probably expect a lot coming from us and i think this this team is set to deliver quite a lot as well if you look at all weight classes from top to bottom male and female we're absolutely stacked so i expect ireland to take home a lot of medals and you know what like if they didn't take home a few medals i'd actually be shocked more so than if we actually did take their take home with a few medals um because i'll start yourself liam what are what is your mental expectation i respect them to definitely get a medal at this championship so gold is we don't want anyone apart from gold so i mean gold and if you look up anyone in your division to see what their their styles are like well i didn't look at anyone in particular now i'll probably do that just when they draw is my boy i had a look at the division i think it's full now so 42 different points in well there just look at them when i got you out against them and see what they have what doesn't mean you might just want to fight the best it's like the world cup 32 32 players only one can win and what about yourself paul have you had a look at your draw um what sort of metallic space expectations do you have i haven't looked yet and i suppose it's hard to tell since i've been there before but um just going to take every fight like as it comes i suppose and obviously gold is like yeah the gold but but um it's hard to tell every probably look maybe look a bit at the opponents but um yeah just take every phrase that comes and get you one look on to the next thing so gold hopefully but i don't know we'll see but i think i think everyone has to say that they're going to throw a win he can't be like ah i'll try winning bronze uh no yeah we're not going to lose like so well that's the irishness it's like you want to say go with you know people being like oh it's saying gold but like when you go into stuff like this like you have to chase gold or else yeah no no i've been like hopefully the first round i get to stay here on holidays yeah hopefully our win boys split draw my favorite but uh now guys look oh i have firm belief that both of you will go over represent the country proud um more importantly represent yourselves bro because at the end they like you do represent yourselves and you know and no one's going to get on your back probably once you get on your own back and i think that's the thing about martial arts and you mean yeah you have to be able to be strong-willed and struggling enough to you know accept your losses and you know celebrate your victories humbly so that is a key to the sport and i'm sure you'll both do yourself proud on that lee i'm sure you'll do your map as well she follows us on instagram there feels privileged or part of the part of the han family now yeah that's why you cannot miss team ireland competing at the imf world championships this january the 24th to the 29th make sure to check out paul buckley's instagram at paul underscore 98 to support paul and check out at lean at liam hand underscore the support league liam also you were on one of ireland's biggest fighting uh instagram page as well i actually forgot nerdy forgot to mention that you want to tell us a bit about it yeah we started where's where it's [Music] so yeah you just you just you showed your face and then i thought everyone was really happy to see it as well so handsome but uh make sure to check out liam's page at irish foilers it's on eleven point nine thousand followers now so a few followers twelve thousand and then uh paul be honest straight away yeah yeah yeah all right i'll give you a shout out we want to wish everyone a very very happy 2022. i can't believe it's a new year but like we're all here to enjoy it to the highest max uh ross and then else to say we wrap these things up no i just want to say best of luck to both lads heading off to abu dhabi it should be an absolutely epic event and share the boatloads make sure to get onto their social medias give them a follow follow their martial arts journey and write them a little dm wishing good luck over there i'm sure the two lads really appreciate that and in terms of the android show make sure to like share subscribe hit the notification bell on youtube and on spotify how you never miss an episode the greatest content in irish mixed martial arts and as always stay stay energized energize up the irish and sustain you guys a couple of times i've seen a couple of clips i think you're doing some interviews with dylan moore and then that i i saw so keep going keep up the good workers